A rare piece of Marvel history, a publisher’s annotated copy of the first Marvel comic book, sold at auction last week for US$2.4 million (80.7 million baht).
The book, Marvel Comics No 1, published in 1939, is so valuable because it is known as the pay copy, in which the publisher recorded the payments he owed to the illustrators, said Stephen Fishler, CEO ComicConnect, an online comic auction house.
Fishler declined to identify the buyer but said that the winner of the auction was a longtime comic collector in his 40s who lived outside the United States.
“He loved the condition of the copy and the story of how it was…
